I am doing the 31 Days of Horror Challenge. Every day in October, I will watch a different horror film I have never seen before and write about it here on the blog. For almost the entire second and third acts of Citadel—a scrappy little Irish production—I was certain that the events being presented were […]
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I am doing the 31 Days of Horror Challenge. Every day in October, I will watch a different horror film I have never seen before and write about it here on the blog. I grew up on a dairy farm in Southern Missouri. To put it mildly, it was the middle of nowhere. The nearest […]
I am doing the 31 Days of Horror Challenge. Every day in October, I will watch a different horror film I have never seen before and write about it here on the blog. It has been seventeen years since Scream was released. Think about that for a moment. Seventeen years. There are two ways you […]
I am doing the 31 Days of Horror Challenge. Every day in October, I will watch a different horror film I have never seen before and write about it here on the blog. Resolution is the type of film about which it is almost impossible to write without giving away any of the surprises the […]
I am doing the 31 Days of Horror Challenge. Every day in October, I will watch a different horror film I have never seen before and write about it here on the blog. Shrooms is the type of movie that promises something a little different. The premise certainly suggests a twist on the traditional “young […]
I am doing the 31 Days of Horror Challenge. Every day in October, I will watch a different horror film I have never seen before and write about it here on the blog. The Theatre Bizarre is a stronger than usual anthology film. I’ve been intrigued by the film for a couple of years now […]
Written by Larry Cohen The world of Cohen as a screenwriter-for-hire is a treacherous place to enter. Full of under-funded, poorly directed crap, it takes a hearty soul to enter such a place and report back if there is anything worth salvaging. I made it through Misbegotten, but just barely. The experience nearly destroyed me, […]
Executive Produced, Written and Directed by Larry Cohen As I mentioned in my Movie Defender piece on Paul Schrader’s The Canyons, I have the tendency to go a little soft on the lesser films of directors I admire. When that director is someone who is also undervalued, as is the case with Larry Cohen, I […]
The plot sounds like warmed-over Bret Easton Ellis, except Ellis actually wrote it. That the director is Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Affliction) is too sad to contemplate. – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone I think they’re trying to say something provocative about the emptiness of Hollywood and the desperation that fame-seeking breeds, something that’s been said […]
I’m not writing this piece as a straight review of Pacific Rim. Instead I am honestly interested in hearing from other people who have seen the movie. I want to know if they took the same intent away from the film that I did, or if I am reading too much into the motivations of […]
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